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Redhaired, blue-eyed, freckle-faced Arthur Godfrey, whose matutinal musings from Washington, D.C. are backed by some 30 sponsors anxious to sell everything from razors to dog food, has said he would rather not have any more sponsors. Unable to resist a sizable addition to his $2,350 a week, Godfrey this week begins to plug the wares of the Florida Citrus Commission, which recently lost interest in chirpy Mary Margaret McBride...
...shall strive to resist by land and sea. We shall be on his track wherever he goes. Our air power will continue to teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph. We shall aid and stir the people of every conquered country to resistance and revolt...
...Vichy would resist by force any military or political encroachments-by inference, Nazi or otherwise-on French North Africa...
...both brothers found the call of their old homestead and neighbors in Lancaster County too strong to resist. Says George: "They are plain folk but friendly and hospitable. Only thing is they put food on the table and you got to reach for it if you want any. Otherwise you don't get nothing. I guess that characterizes the Dutch around here...
Said Gletkin: "That is just talk. Human beings able to resist any amount of physical pressure do not exist...